18 Jun
2004
18 Jun
'04
11:21 a.m.
On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Fred Cisin wrote:
What entry is that?
That configuration probably only worked on a specific brand of phone
system, and only if configured to allow any user to trunk transfer an
outside caller to an outbound trunk. The # would (I assume) tell the
phone system to outdial the 0 and not wait for any further digits.
This is one of those scams that probably worked for one person with one
company they took advantage of and spread from there. Everyone's a sucker
for free phone calls, so of course everyone who heard of this would try
it.
> 83
spammers have been tracked down and terminated with molten iron,
On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
Unfortunately, snopes.com would just debunk it.
snopes.com is good for many kinds of things, but she is a sucker
on certain technology issues. What kind of phone system
does 9 0 # work on? Besides, it's really true! A friend of a friend
lived next to a spammer,
and some biker dude came and burned him to death!
Yeah, I heard he was hopped up on massive doses of V!@6RA. I don't even
want to talk about what he did to the corpse!
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